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#LitRevision, A-Level, Analysis, Edexcel, KS5, Literature, Othello, Resources, Revision

Wider Reading for Othello

December 13, 2018January 6, 2019by Jancke DunnLeave a Comment

Black Face, Maligned Race: The Representation of Blacks in English Shakespeare and the Power of the Face National Theatre Podcast: Emilia and Desdemona: Women in Othello

Creative Writing, English as a Second Language, ESL, KS3

ESL Writing Checklist

February 9, 2018March 3, 2018by Jancke DunnLeave a Comment

To support our weakest students, Our Writing Checklist focuses on basic levels of accuracy whilst encouraging students to look back and redraft their work.

Analysis, Creative Writing, Displays, English as a Second Language, ESL, KS3, Learning Environment

Story Mountain

February 9, 2018February 9, 2018by Jancke DunnLeave a Comment

Story Mountain for the development of creative writing and to support the formative stages of prose analysis.

#LitRevision, Analysis, Displays, iGCSE, KS4, Learning Environment, Quotation Retention, To Kill a Mockingbird

Quotation Retention Challenge: Week 2

January 27, 2018by Jancke Dunn3 Comments

See Week 1 for rationale and to refresh the first round of quotations. These will be revisited in the Week 2 quotation recap. Week 2 of the Quotation Retention Challenge:

Displays, iGCSE, KS3, Learning Environment, Vocabulary

Word of the Week

November 30, 2017June 11, 2018by Jancke Dunn2 Comments

We have been introducing to our students since the beginning of the year. It builds into our formative knowledge curriculum and the importance of explicitly teaching vocabulary exploration; as @Doug_Lemov describes it in 'Reading Reconsidered': “making a case study out of certain words and their application.” Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week [...]

Creative Writing, KS3

200 Word Challenge

November 27, 2017by Jancke DunnLeave a Comment

Inspired by the lead up to UAE's National Day our KS3 students are creating some detailed description based on iconic landscapes and buildings which have become world renowned. 200 Word Challenge - National Day

KS3, KS4

Time to be brave

November 6, 2017January 14, 2018by Jancke DunnLeave a Comment

Ultimately I fell into teaching as I wasn’t ready to give up the study of literature and everyday I learn something new; about a text, an author, a student, a new approach and often about myself. I have taught in a variety of schools up and down the UK and have taken my first foray [...]